> On Jan 1, 2019, at 5:17 PM, Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.d...@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 2019/1/1 7:42, Nadav Amit wrote:
>> A recent enhancement intentionally fails the kernel build if the
>> compiler does not support retpolines and CONFIG_RETPOLINE is set.
>>
>> However, the patch that introduced it did not change RETPOLINE macro
>> references into CONFIG_RETPOLINE ones. As a result, indirect branches
>> that are used by init functions are not kept (i.e., they use
>> retpolines), and modules that do not use retpolines are marked as
>> retpoline-safe.
>>
>> Fix it be changing RETPOLINE into CONFIG_RETPOLINE.
>>
>> Fixes: 4cd24de3a098 ("x86/retpoline: Make CONFIG_RETPOLINE depend on
>> compiler support")
>> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
>> Cc: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.d...@oracle.com>
>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
>> Cc: David Woodhouse <d...@amazon.co.uk>
>> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
>> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masah...@socionext.com>
>> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <na...@vmware.com>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 2 +-
>> include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 2 +-
>> include/linux/module.h | 2 +-
>> 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
>> index 8654b8b0c848..1de0f4170178 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
>> @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ static enum spectre_v2_mitigation spectre_v2_enabled
>> __ro_after_init =
>> static enum spectre_v2_user_mitigation spectre_v2_user __ro_after_init =
>> SPECTRE_V2_USER_NONE;
>> -#ifdef RETPOLINE
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
>> static bool spectre_v2_bad_module;
>> bool retpoline_module_ok(bool has_retpoline)
>> diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
>> index 2010493e1040..977ddf2774f9 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
>> @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
>> */
>> #define uninitialized_var(x) x = x
>> -#ifdef RETPOLINE
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
>> #define __noretpoline __attribute__((__indirect_branch__("keep")))
>> #endif
>> diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
>> index fce6b4335e36..0c575f51fe57 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/module.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/module.h
>> @@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ static inline void module_bug_finalize(const Elf_Ehdr
>> *hdr,
>> static inline void module_bug_cleanup(struct module *mod) {}
>> #endif /* CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG */
>> -#ifdef RETPOLINE
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
>> extern bool retpoline_module_ok(bool has_retpoline);
>> #else
>> static inline bool retpoline_module_ok(bool has_retpoline)
>
> Someone sent a similar patch last month, see below link, you missed the
> change in scripts/mod/modpost.c
Indeed. I missed this patch since it wasn’t on tip (and Google wasn’t
helpful either).
I wonder why it has still not been applied.
